{"id":9555,"date":"2023-10-10T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T16:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9555"},"modified":"2023-09-30T09:48:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T16:48:21","slug":"light-pillars-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9555","title":{"rendered":"Light Pillars in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Light pillars<\/a> are an interesting natural phenomenon in which a vertical\u00a0beam of light\u00a0appears to extend above and\/or below a light source. The effect is created by the\u00a0reflection\u00a0of light off tiny ice crystals slowly falling through the air, reflecting light rays off of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While more common in Canada\/Alaska and other northern latitudes, they recently appeared in the night skies over Redmond, Oregon on Christmas Eve<\/a> 2022. Pretty cool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Light pillars are an interesting natural phenomenon in which a vertical\u00a0beam of light\u00a0appears to extend above and\/or below a light source. The effect is created by the\u00a0reflection\u00a0of light off tiny ice crystals slowly falling through the air, reflecting light rays off of them. While more common in Canada\/Alaska and other northern latitudes, they recently appeared in the night skies over Redmond, Oregon on Christmas Eve 2022. Pretty cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2u7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9559,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions\/9559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}